Roland2 comments on The Quantum Arena - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Roland2 15 April 2008 09:18:03PM 1 point [-]

Regarding the top diagram:

Today, it's taking us 3 dimensions just to visualize an amplitude distribution over the position of one 1-dimensional particle at a single moment in time.

To clarify the meaning of the above diagram, the left-to-right direction is the position of A.

Which of the following is true:

A) In the real universe there is a particle located in one specific position in that diagram. (In that case it is not clear to me what the amplitude distribution represents.)

OR

B) No particle exists in the real universe but all you have is an amplitude distribution over several positions giving the illusion that there is a particle in one position.